Most strongly correlated personality variables
Repressive-defensiveness        r = -.40
Trust                                          r = .37
Emotional stability                    r = .36
Locus of control-chance            r = -.34
Desire for control                      r = .34
Hardiness                                  r = .32
Positive affectivity                    r = .31
Private collective self-esteem  r = .31
Tension                                    r = .31
Hypothesis – E and N did not have the strongest positive and negative
correlations with SWB.
As predicted, desire for control and locus of control-chance were among
YES: Assumption that they’re some underlying enduring
behavioral disposition.
2 most used definition of trait consistency:
Mean-Level
Consistency
Rank- order
consistency
Environment
Parental child
rearing
practices
Living in
stable
environment
Work experience
Partner
Fewer novel
experience Genetic
Factors
Twins-
80%
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good skinconsistenc
y
Increase or
方大同资料decrease
over time
Psychological
Factors
Certain trait/
cognitive
structure
Ego resiliency
Planful
competence
Person-
environment
transactions
“Goodness of
fit”
Reactive
transactions
Evocative
transactions
Proactive
transactions
Manipulative
transactions
Identity
Structure
Achieved or
consolidated
identity
Filter
information &
life experience
Reputation
Hypothesis 1:
What is the
relation between
chronological age
& Trait consistency天气变冷祝福短信
Hypothesis 2:
At what age does
trait consistency
peak? – predict
middle age
Hypothesis 3:
Does trait
consistency peak at
a level high enough
to suggest that traits
stop changing at a
specific age?
Background:
a)Psychodynamic
theorists
b)Developmental
psychologists
c)Transition from
temperament to
adult personality
traits.
跑跑张博d)Ability: age 3 to 5.
e)Temperamental
basis of adult
personality.
Findings:
a) With age, trait
become
increasingly
consistent
b) Steplike pattern of大连景点介绍
increase
Background:
- B loom (1964) & Mc
Crae & Costa (1994):
personality traits should
peak at age 20 or 30.
- S ome found other type
of changes after 30.
- 
Findings &
Discussion:
a) did not peak until 50.
b) Supported their
hypo.
c) Executive
personality:  Identity
certainty, increased
mastery
-Further research:
Consistency
- B ackground:
a)Stop at age 30
b)No longitudinal study
has tracked
individuals.
c)Many of these,
recently published
d)Narrative
e)20, 30, middle age;
not conclusive
- F indings:
a)Peak at 50 high
enough to support
this conclusion.
Discussion:
a) Other indicators of
personality traits
consistency.